Roxio's Toast 11 offers improved import, iLife browsing, more

Everyone's favorite media toolkit, CD- DVD- and (heretical) Blu-Ray burner and breakfast food (apart from porridge) has turned the volume knob up to 11 with the latest version of Roxio's Toast.

The update aims to allow you to take more or less any piece of media in any format and transform it to use on almost any device anywhere you like. Toast 11 has been re-designed from the ground up with a new interface which, say Roxio, "we believe users will find modern and intuitive."

There's a new tutorials section with videos and step-by-step PDFs to guide you through Toast's sometimes impenetrable interface, new presets for producing video in a suitable format to watch on your iPhone, among other devices, and 'Videoboost' to speed up H.264 video conversion.

"Toast 11 adds many requested features such as recording to multiple drives simultaneously, a streamlined product update mechanism, and the ability to save custom video profiles, which is very useful for those that are often converting video for a particular device," says Roxio. "The latest version now also offers built-in features for directly uploading media to social networking sites such as YouTube, Vimeo or Facebook."

Other new features include the ability to capture, save, and convert Web-based video content, disc spanning, one-click backup of HD camcorder footage and TiVo-to-Go support.

[via MacUpdate]

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Source: http://www.roxio.com/enu/products/toast/titanium/overview.ht…

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phlavor

Sweet! I can't wait for a new version of StuffIt to come out.

March 09 2011 at 6:49 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Mathias Bengtsson

First on their list of "why upgrade?" is even more crapware bundled with the install. Meh.

March 09 2011 at 2:44 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Christopher

Yes, Blu-ray burning. There are places and times for the quality and ease of a disc. Video folks burn them for clients all the time.

March 09 2011 at 1:34 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Shunnabunich

Actually, I like to heat up a bowl of noodles for breakfast and put some peas and chopped green onions in with 'em. Takes longer to soften up, but quite yummy when I've got the time.

Oh, right, the app. Well, I've got some older games that won't run without the CD in the drive, so I find Toast handy for mounting a CD image and making it look like a physical disc (as far as the Mac knows). It's actually a separate little command line program within Toast's app bundle, so you can write AppleScripts and stuff to use it instead of having to open up Toast itself. Other than that, I don't really use it for much anymore.

March 09 2011 at 1:14 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Donn

Or I could just keep using Handbrake to convert video for all my devices, with presets.

March 09 2011 at 11:07 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Sauri

Ahh, the discs... Someone still burn them?

March 09 2011 at 10:59 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Mike

Any idea id this will take DRM free tracks from iTunes and burn them as mp3 tracks on a CD to use in my car?

If I convert them to mp3 from within iTunes I end up with loads of duplicate tracks

March 09 2011 at 10:12 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Ome

I use the free disk utility for all my burning needs.

March 09 2011 at 9:52 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Roberto

March 09 2011 at 9:30 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

hans

Has there really been anything useful added since version 8?

March 09 2011 at 9:10 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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Calexifan

That was the last version I bought, and I still use it. I've seen no compelling reasons to upgrade to any of the subsequent versions.